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Both movies display the hardships and homophobia that pursue a homosexual relationship.
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Both show a young man being held captive an abused.
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Both movies share the theme of a woman being stuck on an island with a bunch of psycho dudes.
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Prison films about abuse of power.
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Both are about a little girl being abused by her mom and step-dad until someone steps in and takes her away in order to save her.
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Both are about a teenage girl contemplating suicide after being singled out and bullied by her classmates.
Both depict a mother and son with a strained relationship that turns incestuous.
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Both depict extreme cases of a teenage boy being bullied by his classmates. No one helps or believes them, and even their own mothers abuse them from time to time.
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Both depict quiet teenage boys who struggle with loneliness and survival.
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Both are about a young boy struggling to survive without parents.
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They both have same director. They both deal with love and duty vs honour, and a lower caste samurai being asked to kill someone he is reluctant to.
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same director - same themes of love and difficult decisions about honour